Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

[yokohamamama]

Well, sad day. hat chick I posted about last night (1 week old), happy and healthy last night along with my yokohama(2 weeks old) passed, I belive they were on perhaps on the bottom of the sleeping pile, and they were the smallest in the brooder, I suppose they suffocated because there were no injuries. And to be honest my orpingtons of the same age are just well, large. I feel so bad and should have seen it coming . Oh well, as soon as I get 2 more eggs to put in the bator I will have some blue/black ams on their way ...

 

[BarnGoddess01]

Well, sad day. hat chick I posted about last night (1 week old), happy and healthy last night along with my yokohama(2 weeks old) passed, I belive they were on perhaps on the bottom of the sleeping pile, and they were the smallest in the brooder, I suppose they suffocated because there were no injuries. And to be honest my orpingtons of the same age are just well, large. I feel so bad and should have seen it coming . Oh well, as soon as I get 2 more eggs to put in the bator I will have some blue/black ams on their way ...

Sorry for your loss ....

 

[BarnGoddess01]

Whether or not an Ameraucana that lays a white egg should be in the show ring or not is your opinion.

I will provide a couple of links providing support for my opinion. Please note that several of the contributors are active APA judges. Also proof that I can be educated because initially I did take the position that egg colour didn't matter in the show ring; that there was no provision on the score sheet to deal with egg colour. But apparently, I was wrong. There IS provision to deal with egg colour (as has already been stated here.)

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/400344/heritage-large-fowl-thread/4180#post_7029711

And a thread that specifically discussed the SOP ....

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/623070/standard-of-perfection/210

 

[aoxa]

I will provide a couple of links providing support for my opinion. Please note that several of the contributors are active APA judges. Also proof that I can be educated because initially I did take the position that egg colour didn't matter in the show ring; that there was no provision on the score sheet to deal with egg colour. But apparently, I was wrong. There IS provision to deal with egg colour (as has already been stated here.)

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/400344/heritage-large-fowl-thread/4180#post_7029711

And a thread that specifically discussed the SOP ....

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/623070/standard-of-perfection/210

I read your second thread.. The bird in the first and second thread was not DQ.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/623070/standard-of-perfection/230

Finding a brown egg in a Leghorn coop really should not DQ a bird. In this situation, the judge was about to decide Best of Breed, when the hen chose to lay her egg.... in front of the judge. Oops. He did not disqualify her, just removed her Best of Variety title and gave it to another.

You can not prove where an egg at a show came from unless you actually see "where it came from". An egg could roll from another coop. But with this situation, the judge seen her lay the egg.

 

[BarnGoddess01]

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The point is, he could DQ the bird. And there are instances where it has happened. Obviously, it is a complicated issue. If you read on through the judges' discussion in the SOP thread you will see that.

 

[CFellows]

Hi I am new to the thread... but it says its for posting pictures and discussing our birds. So here are my girls.

Peaches & Cream

Fall

Autumn


If someone could tell me the colors of my birds that would be great. I don't know much about colors, but I think Peaches is a splash? The other two I just call black tailed buffs.

 

[dak]

Well, sad day. hat chick I posted about last night (1 week old), happy and healthy last night along with my yokohama(2 weeks old) passed, I belive they were on perhaps on the bottom of the sleeping pile, and they were the smallest in the brooder, I suppose they suffocated because there were no injuries. And to be honest my orpingtons of the same age are just well, large. I feel so bad and should have seen it coming . Oh well, as soon as I get 2 more eggs to put in the bator I will have some blue/black ams on their way ...

If your chicks are piling up to a point where some are being suffocated, they likely have a insufficient heat source. I like to see my chicks spread out in the brooder sleeping.

 

[dak]

Hi I am new to the thread... but it says its for posting pictures and discussing our birds. So here are my girls.

Peaches & Cream

Fall

Autumn


If someone could tell me the colors of my birds that would be great. I don't know much about colors, but I think Peaches is a splash? The other two I just call black tailed buffs.

Your birds are lovely Easter eggers.

There is a thread on BYC devoted to them and there fans.

 

[aoxa]

The point is, he could DQ the bird. And there are instances where it has happened. Obviously, it is a complicated issue. If you read on through the judges' discussion in the SOP thread you will see that.

I have read to where the discussion about the eggs ends. No where do I find him saying he 'Could' just that he didn't, or shouldn't DQ a bird for it.

But I do agree that a bird that lays an egg a different colour than it SHOULD - would be placed after a similar quality bird that hasn't laid a brown egg right in front of the judge.

 

[aoxa]

Your birds are lovely Easter eggers.   There is a thread on BYC devoted to them and there fans.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/273489/the-ee-braggers-thread